Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A giant red binary star, the brightest in the constellation Scorpio, about 424 light years from Earth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A red star of the first magnitude, the middle one of three in the body of the Scorpion; a Scorpii. See cut under
Scorpius .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the
Scorpion's Heart .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun astronomy A proper name for Alpha Scorpii (α Sco), the brightest star in the
constellation Scorpius . It is a M typered giant , and is abinary with a B type companion visible in greenish.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the brightest star in Scorpius
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Instead he sought heavenly protection as their car sped towards the police's target, a notoriously violent favela called Antares where some of Rio's leading criminals were believed to be meeting.
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Then I branch out, challenging myself to find Cygnus, the Swan, way over in the east, and the red star Antares, which is the marker star for the constellation Scorpius.
Much Ado About Anne Heather Vogel Frederick 2008
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Then I branch out, challenging myself to find Cygnus, the Swan, way over in the east, and the red star Antares, which is the marker star for the constellation Scorpius.
Much Ado About Anne Heather Vogel Frederick 2008
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Then I branch out, challenging myself to find Cygnus, the Swan, way over in the east, and the red star Antares, which is the marker star for the constellation Scorpius.
Much Ado About Anne Heather Vogel Frederick 2008
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Then I branch out, challenging myself to find Cygnus, the Swan, way over in the east, and the red star Antares, which is the marker star for the constellation Scorpius.
Much Ado About Anne Heather Vogel Frederick 2008
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Then I branch out, challenging myself to find Cygnus, the Swan, way over in the east, and the red star Antares, which is the marker star for the constellation Scorpius.
Much Ado About Anne Heather Vogel Frederick 2008
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Antares, which is also a red supergiant and is the 16th brightest star in the sky.
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Antares, which is also a red supergiant and is the 16th brightest star in the sky.
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Antares, which is also a red supergiant and is the 16th brightest star in the sky.
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It's called Antares (ticker AIS), and it has been doing well lately.
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
lbeaumont commented on the word Antares
"Not Mars" because it is bright, reddish, and near the elliptic it can be mistaken for the planet mars.
October 8, 2010